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- Engaging in other forms of deceit of dishonesty. For example, do not submit the same work for more than one course without explicitly obtaining permission from all instructors. Do not request any academic benefit, including an extension of time, a better grade, or a recommendation, from an instructor when the request is based on false information or deception. Do not engage in any other form of academic misconduct not covered here. If you are ever in doubt, ask the instructor for guidance.
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- The sanction for violation of this policy shall be determined by the severity of the violation of this Academic Integrity Policy. Sanctions can range from a formal written reprimand, to failure of the course, and in serious cases, suspension or expulsion from the University.
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On New Year's Day, I took a copy of Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" off my shelf and started reading. I had been torn for a moment between that whale of a tale and "The Three Musketeers," by Alexandre Dumas. Although I look forward to visiting those swashbucklers at some point in the year ahead, I must say that "Moby-Dick" has proved the more apt choice. Both it and January have much in common.
"Moby-Dick" is a long and often arduous read, and January is a long and often arduous month. Both, however, have their high points.
Make no mistake. With less than 160 pages to go, I am enjoying the book. I will say, however, that there have been times when my recognition of the novel as a rightful classic is not matched by a riveted attention and a sense of being entertained. Sequences detailing an exciting and dangerous whale hunt or the monomaniacal madness of Captain Ahab are often followed by exhausting lessons about whales and whaling. I love it when fictional stories are enhanced by research and facts, as both give credibility to a fantastic story and help us suspend our disbelief. However, Melville breaks down the whale so thoroughly — provides so exhausting an account of its history, rituals and anatomy — that I feel I know those creatures of the sea better than I know myself.
Sometimes these passages are interesting, even fascinating, and sometimes they are not. The book is an undeniable classic, one of the greats of all literature, so call me a product of our day and age. I can appreciate that Melville's audience in the 1800s had only books and little else for entertainment, and therefore did not mind seeing a long story through all of its detours and asides. I don't mind detours and asides, but I admittedly have a much lower threshold for chapters and sequences I'd call standstills.
January, if you ask me, is filled with standstills. We have just one week to go until February — hardly an exciting month itself, but definitely one closer to spring — and these last days will feel long indeed if they proceed at the pace of the last three weeks. I look back to New Year's Day, and it feels like ages ago. I look back to December 30, when my wife Valerie and I went to Portland for dinner and a movie for her birthday, and, strangely, it seems even longer a stretch.
However, like those whale chases and clashes between iconic and memorable characters in "Moby-Dick," January has a few things to which we can look forward as we make our way. I would mention football as one of them, but after Sunday night's AFC game between the Patriots and the Ravens, I think I better not. That's a sore subject this week.
Literacy Volunteers of Greater Sanford's annual trivia competition — held last Friday night — is definitely a welcomed diversion from the cold and crustiness outside. Every year, teams gather at the Sanford Town Club and answer the trivia questions that emcee Marcel Blouin throws out there. This year, the team that local attorney (and LVGS board member) Arthur Dumas put together won the event. My team, comprised of Valerie, a few of our friends, and three nice people we met that evening, tied for second place. The big winner, of course, was LVGS, which will benefit from the funds raised that evening to go toward its mission of fostering and promoting literacy in our community.
Unlike August, a hot and lazy month without a single holiday, January does offer meaning. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the man who urged us to dream and to resolve our differences and seek progress peaceably. His words, perhaps more than any other American in the last fifty years, have given us the vision and framework with which to pursue the perfecting of our union. January provides us with the opportunity to renew our commitment to King's goals.
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So January is not without its charms and meaning. It's still my least favorite month of the year, however, and I know these critical columns about January have become a cranky tradition for me. You've been a sport all these years to weather them — although I suspect many of you feel as I do.
But we're Mainers, right? We bear these challenging elements — examples of which can be found in this week's arctic temperatures — and wear our coats and hats and scarves and gloves like badges. Many of us enjoy January and the outdoor opportunities it provides; while I do not, a friend recently spoke of the joy and peace of cross-country skiing and reminded me of the fun times when I too glided through the open space and woods at the Sanford Country Club as a child. Perhaps it's time, after all these years, to pick up those skis again and head to where that pristine, refreshing whiteness can be found.
But I am a spring-and-summer kind of guy, even as I consider October, with its crisp air and colors, my favorite month. I realize, though, that we cannot have the months between April and September, as we know them, without January. In my early twenties, I lived in Florida for a year, and while I loved the heat and palm trees, they acquired a certain sameness after a while. For me, here in Maine, January provides the contrast that makes spring and summer so anticipated, special and memorable.
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Although the exact cause and origin of N'Sync is unknown, there have been many stories of it spreading around ever since the first known case of N'Sync was found in Lance Bass. This origin, however, seems to be the most accurate*:
It possibly started in the city of San Fransisco. Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass, and 3 other metrosexuals that nobody cares about, had a 5-way. A really, really weird 5-way, to be exact. And all of them were performing the same move, simaltaneously, hence the name "N'Sync" (which sounds like "In Synch".) About a week after this event, all 5 of these guys started feeling like they had AIDS. Maybe even Super AIDS. Then it started getting worse. Being the ghey dood that he is, Lance Bass was the only one of them to talk to a doctor about this. Apparently, Lance Bass had contracted an unknown form of AIDS. The doctor named the disease N'Sync, and for some reason, the disease spread like AIDS... oh.... nevermind.
Also, these 5 guys still haven't died from getting the disease. Such a shame...
* Definition of "Accurate", in this case, is "made up on the spot"
Spread of N'Sync[edit]
How exactly N'Sync had spread is also unknown. Supposedly, the guys who first contracted N'Sync started making really crappy music. Then, a group of suicidal masochists bought their albums, and these guys also contracted the virus. Then, the albums started getting even more and more popular, and thousands of teenage girls, suicidal maniacs, and homosexuals everywhere contracted a deadly case of AIDS, and all of them died. To this day, N'Sync carrying bacteria floats around, giving people this awful disease.
There are many symptoms to tell if someone has N' Sync. Including, but not limited to the following:
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- Common use of MySpace, and "Txt spk".
- Listening to the BackStreet Boys, 98 Degrees, Hilary Duff, Justin Beiber, Britney Spears, and New Kids on the Block.
- Speaking through interpretive dance.
- An unusual interest in the male pelvis.
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- Victim calls everyone "girlfriend".
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- Wearing tight leather or pink sweaters. (Especially serious if they wear pink leather jackets.)
- Coming out of the closet multiple times in a day.
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If you or a friend suffer from 4 or more of these symptoms you/they may be suffering from a case of N'Sync...
Or maybe they're just a flaming homosexual.
Is there a cure?[edit]
No. However, the long-term effects of N'Sync can be held back with the use of N'Sync-B-Gone, a special pill made just for the treatment of the disease! (Side effects include Herpes, Crabs,Gonorrhea, Chlamidya, Other forms of AIDS, and sudden death. May also worsen your case of the virus.)
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Currently, due to a vast amount of homophobes and communists, there is only one charity fund for N'Sync victims. Money can be donated to aid in the treatment for people with the disease (Lawl, get it? Aid?) at NoneofthismoneyactuallygoestoarealcharityI'mjusttryingtogetmoremoney.com.
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- December 14, 2012 at 7:45 PM
- bobbie said...
- December 14, 2012 at 8:31 PM
What an incredibly heartbreaking tragedy. My deepest sympathies to all.
- December 14, 2012 at 9:41 PM
Lots of broken hearts here in Connecticut tonight. How Newtown will ever recover from this tragedy, I just don't know.
- December 14, 2012 at 10:22 PM
- Otis/Frazier/Marie said...
I heard about this once I got home. My mother turned on the news and I rushed in to see it. We both started crying; those poor innocent children. I still don't understand what is happening with people these days.
- December 14, 2012 at 10:33 PM
- myoclonicjerk said...
My nephew lost a friend there today. So sad.
- December 14, 2012 at 10:38 PM
Amen. Dear Lord.
- December 14, 2012 at 10:49 PM
- Jaxxy said...
Such a horrible tragedy. I hope that the parents of those poor children have loving, supportive family around them to help them get through this. As a parent myself, I cannot begin to imagine what they must be going through. I'll never understand what must have been going through that young man's mind.
- December 14, 2012 at 11:47 PM
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- December 15, 2012 at 12:41 AM
- merinz said...
The whole world is reeling with shock at this terrible event. Our sympathy is with all those affected.
- December 15, 2012 at 4:48 AM
Unspeakably sad. I don't have children and can't begin to know what they are feeling, but I look at the faces of the parents and weep with them. Newtown is in my thoughts today.
--Queen Anne's Lace
- December 15, 2012 at 8:30 AM
- Ms. Donna said...
Amen, Amen Amen. I know it was a world away from us, but something similar happened in China: http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-man-slashes-22-children-near-china-school-20121214,0,6383015.story
I know the best thing to do is keep on, but this makes it so hard.1117 sticese
- December 15, 2012 at 11:09 AM
Continue to keep your corner of the world warm, bright, and clean Grumpy. If we all aspire to achieve this, then I think we can make something pretty great out of this thing called life. We cannot control what others do but we certainly can take great care of ourselves and our own.
- December 15, 2012 at 4:17 PM
We have already heard from the brother of the shooter that he suffered from a mental illness. I'm sure more information will be forthcoming in the days and weeks ahead.
These incidents are becoming all too common. Let's try to get these folks mental health help before another tragedy happens.
I can not imagine the heartbreak that those familes and the community is experiencing. My thoughts and prayers go out to them.
- December 15, 2012 at 7:21 PM
- Guildofcannonballs said...
If I weren't aware life was much, much worse for so many before me, I am not sure I could bear it.
As it stands, I feel lucky.
Thanks to persons such as our host, Grumpy.
- December 16, 2012 at 12:17 AM
Our Prayers are in Over Drive Here For Everyone....lyrat
- December 16, 2012 at 3:50 AM
- December 16, 2012 at 2:14 PM
@Otis/Frazier/Marie & Jaxxy et al - as Brent pointed out . . . one of 16 people posting - "We have already heard from the brother of the shooter that he suffered from a mental illness."
As long as the outcry is about gun control, and until some serious work is done on reducing the stigma of mental illness [we're about where people were with cancer - "the Big C" in the 20's & 30's - not that any are around now to remember] this type of problem is not going away any time soon.
Please read the following article - I excerpt one paragraph near the end:
No one wants to send a 13-year old genius who loves Harry Potter and his snuggle animal collection to jail. But our society, with its stigma on mental illness and its broken healthcare system, does not provide us with other options. Then another tortured soul shoots up a fast food restaurant. A mall. A kindergarten classroom. And we wring our hands and say, "Something must be done."
- December 16, 2012 at 5:51 PM
- Debbie said...
@Anonymous 5:51===great article! I work in the ER regularly and there are so many mentally ill who need help and there is none! That de-institutionalization that occurred a few years ago has left too many to fend for themselves!!
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You don't have to be a developer or a marketer or even SABDFL to have a profound effect on the Ubuntu community. aysiu, one of the most prolific posters and a long-time forum member and staffer, has guided countless newcomers toward success with Ubuntu and Linux on the whole. With a bean count that surpasses 25,000 posts, he is a fixture in the community and a valued resource for Ubuntu newbies and veterans alike.
Tell as much as you're willing about your "real" life — name, age, gender, location, family, religion, profession, education, hobbies, etc.
I'm a bit shy about revealing all my personal details, but I will say I'm under 40, male, and married. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, am a Christian, and currently work in admissions (I used to be an English teacher). You can read my random thoughts at my blog.
When and how did you become interested in computers? in Linux? in Ubuntu?
To be honest, I was never that interested in computers until I started using Linux. I'd always viewed the computer as a necessary evil or "just" a tool (one which is usually broken), even though I've been using computers since the early 80s. It was a serious case of spyware/adware that hit our Windows XP computer in June 2004 that got me thinking about alternatives to Windows. Too cheap to shell out for a Mac, I tried out Linux (Blag, to be exact), didn't find it "user-friendly" enough, and went back to Windows… but with Firefox instead of Internet Explorer.
My continued use of Firefox opened me up to the world of open source, and I gave Linux another chance in April 2005, using Mepis. I switched to Ubuntu in May 2005 and have been using Ubuntu full-time ever since.
In some ways, I do still view computers as a necessary evil, but if you have to use something, you might as well get to know how to use it well.
When did you become involved in the forums? What's your role there?
The forums (and the Ubuntu Guide) were what drew me to Ubuntu, even though I found Mepis more "user-friendly" (more graphical frontends for tasks, preinstalled proprietary software) at the time. The Ubuntu Forums members were responsive, friendly, and knowledgeable. The ability to copy and paste a whole bunch of commands from the Ubuntu Guide really turned me on to the power of the terminal and move me away from my dependence on the GUI (graphical user interface) and fear of the CLI (command-line interface).
A few months after being a forums member, I was asked to be a moderator. I stepped down after a while so I could just be "normal" again, but when I was asked a second time to be a moderator, I stayed, and I think — moderator or not — I've been able to help out some new users, and it feels good to know I can help other new users, even though I'm not a programmer or system administrator.
Are you a Ubuntu member? If so, how do you contribute? If not, do you plan on becoming one?
I'm not a Ubuntu member, and I don't plan to be. I'm actually not even sure what membership is for. I have a tendency to shy away from being "official" anything. I don't like being on committees or boards, but I do like to help out when I can… unofficially, of course.
What distros do you regularly use? What software? What's your favorite application? Your least favorite?
I did a little distro-hopping the first two months of Linux use (even though Mepis and Ubuntu were my main distros). These days, though, I pretty much use Ubuntu exclusively. My favorite applications are Firefox, Thunderbird, Rhythmbox, F-Spot, and TagTool. My least favorite application is Evolution. I just use what works for me, though. These days I'm less and less into tinkering and more and more into getting stuff done.
What's your fondest memory from the forums, or from Ubuntu overall? What's your worst?
My fondest memories, oddly enough, are all the crazy fights about Linux "desktop readiness." It's amazing that no matter how much time has passed, how many arguments have been repeated, how many improvements developers have made, people still can argue about Linux being "not ready for the desktop" or fill-in-the-blank year being "the year of the Linux desktop." I find it fascinating.
My worst memories are of the Ubuntu update that caused people's X servers to crash. I was lucky enough to not have updated at that time, but I know a lot of people got slammed, and it can be a scary thing to see people stuck at the command-line. It's okay to be at the command-line if you want to be there, but being stuck there is not a pleasant experience.
What luck have you had introducing new computer users to Ubuntu?
I've never done it. I tried to "convert" a Windows user to Mepis when I first started using Linux (the newest converts are always the most enthusiastic about evangelizing Linux), and that failed miserably. I don't believe in preaching, whether it's Christianity or Linux. Live your life in the way you believe to be right. If you inspire others to do the same, great, but don't force your beliefs or lifestyle on someone else. That's how I operate.
What would you like to see happen with Linux in the future? with Ubuntu?
I'd love to see Linux desktop use at 33 percent of the market. I don't think we should take over the world, but we should be a presence in the world, the way Linux servers are a presence in the server market. Linux being a presence would mean real choices for non-tech-savvy end users and better hardware and software support for all Linux users.
If there was one thing you could tell all new Ubuntu users, what would it be?
Don't believe the hype. Lower your expectations, and you'll be pleasantly surprised. Come with an open mind. For more details, read Is Ubuntu for You?
aysiu keeps a blog at http://ubuntucat.wordpress.com. For more interviews with forum members and staff, read Nine Simple Questions.


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New Catholic Dictionary – Saint Brendan
Abbot, called The Voyager, The Navigator, and sometimes The Elder, to distinguish him from Brendan the Younger (490-573) Born near Tralee, Ireland, 484; died Annaghdown, 577. He was ordained, 512, and erected monastic cells at Ardfert and Shanakeel, near Brandon Hill, whence he set out on his famous voyage. He established the See of Ardfert, erected a monastery at Inis-da-druin (now Coney Island, County Clare), 550, and made a missionary tour of three years through Britain, visiting Wales and Scotland. In 577 he founded a monastic school at Clonfert. According to what some consider legend and others fact, he is related to have sailed west from Kerry in quest of a land of promise and to have reached a distant beautiful region adorned with luxuriant vegetation; after a journey of seven years he returned to Ireland. The tradition which certainly dates from the 9th century is found in a 10th or 11th-century manuscript and was a little later current in the west of Europe. It probably had its foundation in a real sea-voyage, the destination of which is not known, possibly some part of the American Continent. Patron of sailors. Buried at Clonfert. Feast, 16 May.


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Chantelle Brightbill used a lovely free-motion quilting pattern to enhance her 37" x 52" Broken Chain quilt.
Here's what Chantelle had to say about her quilt:
"I hesitate to make designs with a lot of triangles or ones with many blocks repeated, but I love using traditional designs, so I decided to use the Yankee Puzzle block in a way that was less stressful, by just piecing it into a chain. I decided that having the chain 'broken' made for a more interesting composition. For the solid color I originally intended to use white, but it felt too bland when I laid it out, so I hand dyed it grey. I specifically didn't want to use the exact same tone as the grey prints, so I added a bit of yellow to the dye and gave it a greenish undertone. I think that small contrast adds a lot to the limited color palette.
I began free motion quilting because I am not very good at stitch in the ditch (I always wobble out of it), and I don't have the patience to lay out a formal design. I was basically just doing stipple for a long time, but I started noticing more creative types of free motion in magazines and blogs, so I started experimenting. Now quilting is my favorite part of the entire process, in fact for a long time I only made whole cloth quilts. I don't enjoy lots of complicated and exacting piecing, I just want to create a foundation to quilt on. I do all my quilting on my own machine, which has a few extra inches under the arm. That makes a big difference in what it can handle. I can quilt King size quilts on it.
I usually do not decide what kind of quilting pattern I am going to do until the quilt top is finished. Basting gives me a chance to spend some time with the design, and by the time I have finished pinning the top has told me how it wants to be quilted.
I think the best way to approach free motion quilting is without expectations. You need to just relax and concentrate on even stitch length. If you have that pretty much any design will look good. I like to play with smaller pieces, and if I like the way the pattern turns out I will use it on something larger."
Chantelle taught herself to sew when she was 16. Growing up in a cotton farming area of rural Australia has given her a strong commitment to using organic cotton fabrics. She is a member of the Orange County, California, Modern Quilt Guild.


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Hygiene concerns about "fish pedicures" — in which schools of carp nibble the dead skin off your tootsies — are kind of the least of our reservations about them. But nevertheless, they're cropping up again.
Although fish pedis have long since come under fire stateside — and, indeed, been outlawed in 14 states — they're apparently all the rage in the UK. And only now are the inevitable concerns starting to fly. Investigators from the HPA are going to begin examining the risk for infection. And even if they don't find anything conclusive, we hope this quote from the Daily Mail will put people off:
Customer Max Langton, from North London, said: 'I had a pedicure from one of the new high street chains. I was put off when a man sitting opposite me said he had something wrong with his foot and hoped the fish were enjoying it.'
He added: 'We were asked if we had any fungal infections, but no one checked.'
Fears Toothless Miniature Carp Used For Trendy Pedicures May Spread Disease [Daily Mail]


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The Sieg X2 mini mill is known by many names. Grizzly G8689, Harbor freight 44991, little machine shop 3900, Micro mark 84630 as well as models formerly offered by Central tool, Homier and Cummins. They are all the same mill with a few small variations. The most important of which is whether it comes equiped with a R-8 or MT-3 spindle. The R-8 is the preferred spindle due to the fact that there is more and cheaper tooling available for it.
These are nice little mills for small work, right out of the box, but there is still a lot of room for improvement. The purpose of this thread is to discuss these mods. Searching the net I have found many great threads dedicated to hotrodding these mills. One of the best sites is Tooling, parts, and accessories for bench top machinists - LittleMachineShop.com
This site is all about mini mills and lathes. They offer a ton of reference material as well as stock and upgraded parts.
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Videos | August 23, 2012
Dropping in on Mars in High-Res
This movie from NASA's Curiosity rover shows most of the high-resolution frames acquired by the Mars Descent Imager between the jettison of the heat shield and touchdown. The video, obtained on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT), covers the last two-and-a-half minutes before touchdown in Gale Crater.
Audio recorded from mission control can be heard, counting down the critical events.
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Pandorum 2009
Pandorum is an upcoming American science fiction film written by Travis Milloy and directed by Christian Alvart. The film stars Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. Filming began in Berlin in August 2008. Pandorum is scheduled to be released on September 4, 2009.
Plot: In Pandorum, actors, Dennis Quaid (Vantage Point, The Express) and Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma, Alpha Dog), join Cam Gigandet (Never Back Down, Twilight), Cung Le (Tekken, Fighting), newcomer Antje Traue and director Christian Alvart (Antibodies) to tell the terrifying story of two crew members stranded on a spacecraft who quickly realize they are not alone. Two astronauts awaken in a hyper sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It's pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the spacecraft. They can't remember anything who are they, what is their mission? The only way out of the chamber is a dark and narrow airshaft. Corporal Bower (Foster), the younger of the two, crawls inside, while the other, Lt. Payton (Quaid), stays behind for guidance on a radio transmitter. As Bower ventures deeper and deeper into the ship, he begins to uncover a terrifying reality. Slowly the spacecraft's shocking and deadly secrets come unraveled, and the astronauts realize that the survival of mankind hinges on their actions.


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This story first appeared in WIRED 13.02 published in February, 2005.
For a lock picker, the world is a different place. Take, for example, a typical suburban house, with a bicycle in the front yard and a five-pin Weiser bolting the front door—a basic pin-and-tumbler lock, employed by millions of home owners.
When most people see that lock, they see security. But a lock picker sees a game. And maybe 15 seconds with a rake pick and a tension wrench. As for the bike Kryptonited to the railing out front? Please. Ten seconds, tops, with a Bic Round Stic ballpoint.
Or take a jewelry store on Main Street. The world sees the shatterproof Lexan windows and stone walls. Sure, you could melt the Lexan with a lighter or turn that wall into lava with a few strokes of a battery-powered thermal lance, but that's not fair, that's forced entry. Besides, why bother when you can go through the door? The dimpled 437-rated high-security lock, the one Underwriters Laboratories considers a 20-minute pick job? A 12-year-old with a bump key could hack it in 20 seconds.
To understand how, drive two hours north of Amsterdam, to a small brick building in the Dutch village of Sneek. The Sneek Wigledam Youth Hostel appears to be nothing special, just bunk beds and a bar-and-breakfast space of unpainted wood and colorful furniture—something like an Ikea Gulag. But to a lock sports aficionado, this is Wimbledon.
Arthurmeister, the Master of the Universe
It's 20 hours before the third annual Dutch Open lock-picking competition will begin, but the room is already packed with 50 or so men and women wielding burglar tools and representing the international steel bolt-hacker diaspora. By the kitchen you'll find Jean-Marie, a debonair French military "surreptitious entry" instructor in a black commando sweater, chatting with a lock enthusiast about his collection of Abloy disc tumblers. At the door is Barry Wels, the event's host and a coinventor of the CryptoPhone. He's hacking an expensive, high-security, dimpled Mul-T-Lock using only a filed key and a steak knife handle. Behind the bar, a pair of locksmiths are speculating about which of the newbies is really an undercover cop. By the pool table, a gaggle of Dutch programmers probes the latches of a combination padlock with a broken tape measure, while behind them a German cyberpunk sells a hand-milled Kryptonite skeleton key to an American satellite engineer: 100 euros - cheap.
Standing above them all, with a beer stein in one hand and a cigarette in the other, is Arthur Bühl, a private dick from Hamburg and one of the most successful lock pickers of all time. Even in this crowded, smoky room, you can't miss him—he's the one standing 6'5" in snakeskin boots, with a kidney-length mullet cascading over the broad shoulders of his double-breasted zoot suit. Bühl's Fabio-the-Barbarian look stands out. So does his record. Although he's never won a Dutch Open, he's won most everywhere else, earning him Germany's ultimate lock-picking accolade: Master of the Universe.
"Arthurmeister!" booms Arthurmeister. Across the room, beer mugs chink at the cry of his name. The Master of the Universe ranking reflects his cumulative lock-picking score—it's a title that the lock sport commissioners bestow on the world points leader. If Bühl wants to keep it, he has to keep winning. Tomorrow, his sights will be set on toppling the current Dutch Open champion—a slight, mustachioed man in a T-shirt and acid-washed jeans named Julian Hardt. Back in Germany, Hardt works as a rainmaker, piloting his twin-prop to seed thunderheads with silver iodide.
"For me, a lock is an intellectual puzzle, like chess!" Julian the Champ yells in Bavarian-accented English. He yells because two men behind him have started pithing a steel safe with a cobalt-tipped drill. "But when you break a lock, when you crack that first puzzle, when you feel pins click and the cylinder go - it's like a drug," he continues. "So then you want to try a harder one!"
Arthurmeister throws an arm around Julian the Champ and laughs as only a Master of the Universe should. "Ja, life is good," he declares. "But tomorrow, you are mine."
Hardt smiles in concession. His eyes level at Arthurmeister's chest hair. "Arthur, tomorrow is tomorrow." Hardt says. "Why not have another beer today?"
'Death is a fantastic motivator.'
Marc Weber Tobias is the author of Locks, Safes, and Security: An International Police Reference, a two-volume, 1,400-page compendium referred to here as De Bijbel. Last summer, Tobias' report on how to use a ballpoint pen to hack tubular locks—locks with circular key interfaces, like those made by Kryptonite—made headlines coast to coast. Much to the company's horror, Tobias publicly ridiculed their bike lock as an overpriced horseshoe. "Those people are unbelievably arrogant," he says with a smirk. "I can't wait to break their next design and destroy that company."
Tobias shrugs off the notion that by publicizing the vulnerability, he's creating a crime wave. "People are just mad because they wasted 50 bucks," he says. "People trust their lives and safety to these locks. But most locks are garbage. Look around, they're easy to open. Not knowing that doesn't make you safer." Tobias rolls his eyes and waggles his head incredulously. "I mean, what do people want—security through ignorance? Wake up."
This rumpled 59-year-old ur-nerd isn't in Sneek to compete. He's staying in this "godawful miniature prison" to give a PowerPoint presentation ("Vulnerabilities of Master Key Systems") and to videotape the newest attacks against the latest locks. So he's perfectly happy to offer a few friendly tips to a fellow American who's new to the sport and struggling to learn the ropes.
"You're retarded," Tobias says, watching the neophyte wrestle with the pins. Tobias takes the lock and looks inside to make sure it isn't broken. It's fine. "I'll tell you how they teach it in covert-entry camp," he says, laying a hand on the poor picker's shoulder. "First, I stick you in a cage. Then I lock the door." Tobias straightens and smiles. "End of story. Trust me, it works," he says. "Death is a fantastic motivator."
The Master of the Universe Is Ready to Rock
Diamond picks, snakes, rakes, combs, shallow picks, and handmade tension wrenches of black spring steel—the tools are readied for battle. It's 10 o'clock the next morning in the tournament hall. The competitors sit before their instruments.
The rules are old-school, head-to-head. Each person gets a different lock. Eight minutes to open your lock, then switch locks across the table and begin again for another eight. That's a round. At the end of each round, whoever has a shorter combined time is the winner. The rounds continue until it's only two, then one.
It's locksmith against space engineer, programmer against undercover cop, French commando against American college student. Julian the Champ, who grips the lock in one hand as he picks it with the other, dries his fingers on his pant leg and tries to remain calm. Arthurmeister prepares his vise. Amazingly, although last seen at 4 am manning the keg and shouting his own name, Arthurmeister is downstairs looking fresh in a double-breasted suit and vest, a key insignia on his red silk tie. His meaty hands are shaking and his eyes are bloodshot, but the Master of the Universe is ready to rock.
"Three, two, one, go!" The pickers grab their tools and begin. Most combine the tension wrench with a rake—a tool with multiple heads that can be dragged quickly over all the pins at once. As they work, they stare down at the table or into space. They're visualizing, using the pick like a catfish uses its whiskers, mapping the dark recesses by feel. It's a cold hard world inside the keyway. There are special pins, mushrooms, telescopes, wedges. Pins designed to foil people, pins that don't cooperate. And always, there's the pressure of the clock.
"This isn't pressure," Tobias says. "Try real-world covert entry. Either you pick the lock fast or you get shot or arrested. End of story."
"Open!" says Julian the Champ.
"Open!" yells Arthurmeister.
It's Like Chess, But Without a Chessboard
Round after round, the competitors fall away, until finally, inevitably, only these two remain. They sit down across from each other at a table. The spectators and fallen competitors gather around.
A lock is placed in front of the Champ. He scoops it up and squints into its mysterious darkness. It's a Lips 8042C, a five-pin cylinder with a straight keyway. It's tough, but fair.
Arthurmeister receives its sister lock, the Lips 8362C. It's a six-pin high-security model. Several of the pins are mushroom-shaped. Working them with a pick is difficult, made all the more so by the keyhole. It's paracentric, shaped something like a thalidomide lightning bolt, and expressly designed to hinder the motion of a picker's tools. In technical terms, the 8362C is a bitch.
Arthurmeister stubs out his cigarette and tightens the demon lock in his vise. Then he rubs his hands and leans over his challenge like a hungry giant. Go! The opponents wedge in their tension wrenches and begin.
Not much is happening at the tables. It's like watching a chess match, only without the chessboard. But to a knowledgeable lock picker, this is an epic showdown. "Intense!" whispers Tobias.
Hardt works his picks in his cupped hand as if he's applying lipstick to a hand puppet. Arthurmeister scrapes away at the monster in his vise like a dentist on Benzedrine. The tools of the trade look like toothpicks in his oversize mitts.
"Open!" cries Arthurmeister. He smooths his plumage back and sits upright in his throne, triumphant.
The other lock pickers gasp. Someone claps. Arthurmeister has picked the 8362C in only 20 seconds. It was a rake pick on a supertough lock, an opening that uses luck almost as much as skill.
Meanwhile, Julian the Champ can't pick his lock at all. The clock runs out at eight minutes.
Julian looks up through his tangled eyebrows. "Oh, Arthur," he sighs. He sucks his teeth and grimaces like a beaver. They switch locks. The Champ has to beat Arthurmeister's time or he loses. It's almost impossible. Julian works at the 8362C intensely, but 20 seconds is not time enough. It's over. He stands, defeated. His opponent inhales him in a bear hug.
The crowd claps and hoots. "Arthurmeister!" they yell.
"Beer!" Arthurmeister booms back. The Master of the Universe lopes to the bar to celebrate, more, again. And a new Dutch Open champion is born.


text: Show Hide image Science & Tech 2 May 2012 The limits of science: Martin Rees Astronomer Royal Sign-up Einstein averred that "the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible". He was right to be astonished. It seems surprising that our minds, which evolved to cope with life on the African savannah and haven't changed much in 10,000 years, can make sense of phenomena far from our everyday intuitions: the microworld of atoms and the vastness of the cosmos. But our comprehension could one day "hit the buffers". A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain "open frontiers" beyond human grasp. Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent of scientists focus their efforts. Even the smallest insect, with its intricate structure, is far more complex than either an atom or a star. Everything, however complicated – breaking waves, migrating birds, or tropical forests – is made up of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. That, at least, is what most scientists believe, and there is no reason to doubt it. Yet there are inherent limits to science's predictive power. Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become. And even if we could build a computer with hugely superhuman processing power, which could offer an accurate simulation, that doesn't mean that we will have the insight to understand it. Some of the "aha" insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects. Next: Carolyn Porco Previous: Denis Alexander Back to list Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! This article first appeared in the 07 May 2012 issue of the New Statesman, The Science Issue SUBSCRIBE More


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DENVER – Colorado, the host of Wednesday's first presidential debate, has offered Democrats a blueprint toward future political success as the state turns away from the attitudes and demographics that once made it a Republican stronghold.
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This combination of file pictures shows President Barack Obama removing his jacket after arriving at Tampa International Airport on September 20 in Tampa, Florida, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney putting on his jacket before departing Newark airport in New Jersey for Ohio where he will address a campaign rally on September 14, 2012.
The political terrain here has changed rapidly since the days when George W. Bush won the state by 9 points in 2000 and 5 points in his 2004 re-election bid. Rather, Colorado has become an incubator for Democratic success. The state was once dominated by Republicans, but Democrat Ken Salazar's 2004 Senate race victory helped break the GOP stranglehold. Democrats now hold the governorship and both Senate seats.
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What has gone on here closely mirrors the political shifts happening at the national level. A growing Latino population has become increasingly Democratic, putting the GOP at a natural "disadvantage," according to one state lawmaker. And Republican candidates face tremendous pressure to cater to influential conservatives in the party, giving Democrats ample space in the center for the general election.
"We're Western Democrats. We're very different from East Coast Democrats," said Mike Melanson, a Democratic operative in Colorado and senior partner at OnSight Public Affairs. "And as long as you brand yourself in that tradition, then you, as a Democrat, can do well."
That same story is now playing out in the presidential election. President Barack Obama has worked toward building Colorado into a Western foothold for Democrats as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney shows signs of struggling to rally independents, women and Latinos both here and in a broad swath of other battleground states.
The Centennial State is now firmly battleground territory. Obama led Romney, 50 percent to 45 percent, among likely voters here in a Sept. 20 NBC News/Marist/Wall Street Journal poll.
Campaign senior adviser Kevin Madden explains Mitt Romney's mood heading into Wednesday's debate and how the team is interpreting the GOP nominee's recent decline in the polls.
Romney spent Monday evening courting voters in the Denver area and looking to make up ground versus Obama, just as he'll try to do in Wednesday's highly anticipated debate.
"These debates are an opportunity for each of us to describe the pathway forward for America that we would choose," Romney told a crowd of about 5,500 in his last public event preceding Wednesday's showdown.
The highly produced rally featured an appearance by Denver Broncos legend John Elway and a giant backdrop reading "J-O-B-S" as if to emphasize the theme of Romney's remarks.
"I look forward to these debates. I'm delighted that we're going to have three debates," Romney said. "It'll be a conversation with the American people that will span almost an entire month."
Related: NBC/WSJ poll: Almost 40 percent say debates will be important
But the GOP hopeful's struggles here are as deeply rooted as many of the Republican Party's own broader, long-term political challenges.
The Latino vote, for instance, has grown in Colorado with each successive election, and has trended increasingly Democratic in the meanwhile.
Latinos accounted for 20.7 percent of Colorado residents in the 2010 Census, up from 17.1 percent a decade earlier. That growth has been particularly pronounced in suburban Denver. The Hispanic or Latino population grew 10 points, to 38.2 percent, in Adams County, and jumped from 11.8 percent of Arapahoe County in 2000 to 18.7 percent in 2010.
"The population shift has made Jefferson County a battleground county. At one time, it was solid red," said State Rep. Jim Kerr, a Republican who hails from Jefferson, the third county to make up the Denver metro area.
The Latino population growth hasn't been as pronounced in Jefferson County, but has still forced Republicans here to reckon with changing politics. Republicans' tone toward Latinos and on the issue of immigration has threatened to drive those voters away from the GOP.
"The olive branch is there. There are the Tom Tancredos over our party," said Kerr, referring to the former Colorado congressman who was a strident opponent of illegal immigration, "then there are the common-sense Republicans of our party … We're trying to build a better message – to be a big tent party."
Senior campaign adviser Robert Gibbs explains how President Barack Obama is preparing for Wednesday's debate and whether John Elway's endorsement of Mitt Romney will hurt the president's campaign.
Melanson pointed to the uptick in voters who don't formally affiliate with either party as a driving force in Colorado politics. He argued that the state had shifted back toward the center after experiencing a kind of Republican renaissance around the turn of the century.
(That isn't even to mention the disadvantage Romney faces with women. Obama leads Romney, 54 percent to 40 percent, among likely women voters, according to that NBC/WSJ/Marist poll. Obama beat Arizona Sen. John McCain by 15 points among women in 2008.)
Obama – whose 2008 nominating convention was here in Denver – was able to take advantage of these changes in Colorado when he defeated McCain four years ago. Obama beat McCain, who was one of a few Republican champions of immigration reform, 61 percent to 38 percent that year among Latinos.
The president seems poised to do the same in 2012. A national impreMedia/LatinoDecisions poll of registered Latino voters released Monday found Obama with a 73 percent to 21 percent advantage over Romney. The same poll found Democrats with a 69 percent to 22 percent advantage over Republicans on the generic congressional ballot.
The challenge for Romney is to erase some of these deficits – with women, with Latinos, with unaffiliated voters – in the next month.
"If Mitt Romney could have been Gov. Romney, I think he could have done much better in Colorado," said Melanson, who argued that attacks questioning Romney's authentic positions on issues have been especially damaging in Colorado.
"Once that question gets in your head, you've lost a lot of Western voters," he said.
Fmr. Sen. John Sununu discuss the 2012 campaign, the upcoming debate, outlook for Mitt Romney, and whether he expects New Hampshire to vote in November.
Republicans had been able to survive here in the past by rallying voters from outlying areas and winning over evangelical hotbeds like Colorado Springs. Those voters make up the base of the party here, and dominate the nominating process. But their support isn't enough on its own to win a general election. Moreover, Romney hasn't always excelled with those voters; former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum upset Romney here during the Republican primary and laid bare Romney's difficulties in winning that group.
Said one voter named Steve (who declined to give his last name), a property manager from Aurora who attended Romney's rally Monday evening: "I find him milquetoast, like McCain. But I would vote for a milquetoast candidate over Obama any day because I am a conservative."
In essence, the GOP's broader woes – unforgiving demographic changes, skeptical moderates and a Republican base that demands ideological fealty – are laid bare in Colorado.
Whether Romney can reverse that slide, let alone accomplish such a herculean task in the next 35 days, is another question.
"There are three things in politics. There's money, there's message and there's the messenger," said Kerr. "Romney's a good messenger; Obama's a very good messenger."
"So Romney's got to work on his message," he added.


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forestwalker wrote:Good looking map and represents my state well. I'd only suggest that Zzyzx is an EXTREMELY tiny and obscure place. How about Mojave, Joshua Tree, or Fort Irwin as the name for that region? (most of that area IS Fort Irwin, which is why it's a big blank on maps)
forestwalker wrote:Well, sure, Zzyzx is a very cool name. But it's like calling the Gulf of Mexico "Drilling Platform #47;" it's extremely obscure and not representative of the region overall. And it'll elicit a lot of "wth is that?", even from 90% of Californians. If we're shooting for accuracy, of course, the area should probably be called Army's Playground, Methland, or Hell's Front Porch.
forestwalker wrote:You might also consider Modoc instead of Lassen for the northeast corner territory. Mt. Lassen is well to the west of there. That area is both Modoc County and, geographically, the Modoc Plateau. Calling it Modoc would also be a nod to one of CA's native tribes.
Cascades would be a better descriptor for the neighboring territory than Mt. Shasta: describes the whole region rather than just one mountain that doesn't really dominate the area.
Bruceswar wrote:What do you have against Fort Irwin?
The Bison King wrote:Bruceswar wrote:What do you have against Fort Irwin?
Nothing I just like ZZYZX more.
isaiah40 wrote:The Bison King wrote:Bruceswar wrote:What do you have against Fort Irwin?
Nothing I just like ZZYZX more.
Keep Zzyzx, sounds like someone sleeping at the wheel while driving through that part of California.
ender516 wrote:I like that "Zzyzx" was invented in a blatant attempt to be alphabetically last.
Vlasov wrote:Don't forget to change "Napa Valley" (in gray) to "Santa Rosa" at the top (Northern Coast boundary) on the Bay Area inset map.
The Bison King wrote:I'm trying to upload the file as a TIFF cause I hate the way the upload washes out the color
The Bison King wrote:PNG! got it... I forgot which one, for some reason I got it in my head it needed to be a tiff. That should save me some frustration. Though I'd still like to know why it did that.
ender516 wrote:Victor, if you are talking about updating the XML, why do you need the version on your desktop? Can't you just grab the live beta version from http://www.conquerclub.com/maps/California.xml?
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"What I really want to know, is where do you think I should invest now?"
I could have given him the usual answer — that I'm not a financial adviser and that I don't pick investments for people — but instead I answered his question this way:
"That may be what you want to know, but what you need to know first is 'What's your greatest financial fear?'"
Mike, a pilot, immediately answered that he's worried about another layoff. Chris, to his right, is scared of the market having a repeat of the meltdowns he saw in 2000 and 2008. Bob said he worries about outliving his money or needing long-term care.
And so it went for a few minutes, each guy coming up with a few legitimate things to fear, or nodding in agreement with the concerns cited by someone else, as the worries ran from current socio-economic events to providing for a special-needs child, to fear of missing out on the market's gains, to not being able to pay to put the kids through college and more.
Finally, Mike said, "Maybe you just say that what I fear the most is losing money or mismanaging money."
The problem with all of these concerns is that even if you work to solve your biggest fear, you may still feel vulnerable to other worries.
If losing money in the market is your biggest fear and you go to all cash in response, you assuage the big worry, but over time you will have a growing scare that your money isn't keeping pace with inflation or, perhaps, that you will outlive your nest egg.
Moreover, if you take that kind of all-or-nothing position, having everything in cash could leave you afraid that if the market doesn't have a comeuppance soon, you've lost real opportunities to grow your savings.
While an individual's financial fears morph and evolve, risks don't. Certain dangers may be more or less present based on current events and conditions, but the underlying risks don't change.
As a result, it's important for investors to see how their worries align with the various types of risk.
Market risk, or "principal risk" is the chance that a downturn (or a bad investment) chews up your money. It's there for both stocks and bonds — when interest rates rise, bondholders will see the market value of their paper shrink — and for most people it's the big bugaboo.
Inflation or purchasing-power risk for most people is the "risk of avoiding risk" — the opposite end of the spectrum from market risk — the possibility that you are too conservative and your money can't grow fast enough to keep pace with inflation.
Interest-rate risk generally revolves around how rates will change. If you seek a long-term "risk-free return" by putting your money in a bank certificate of deposit, you face the chance that interest rates rise and your assets are stuck at what has become a below-average rate of return.
Shortfall risk is about you, personally, more than the market; it's the chance that you won't have enough money to make your goals. You can face shortfall risk by being either too conservative or too aggressive; if you don't believe your portfolio can deliver enough, the best way to address this risk is to save more.
Special-situation risk involves your life as well, whether it's the special-needs case, planning for college, saving for a big event like a wedding or something else. Most parents get to a point when paying for college is a key concern — a worry that distracts them from saving more for their own retirement — but those circumstances eventually pass.
A close cousin is timing risk, another highly personal factor that hinges on your time horizon. While experts agree that the chance that stocks will make money over the next two decades is high, the prospects for the next two years are murky; if you need your money in two years, you have a worry about timing.
Liquidity risk affects everything from junk bonds to foreign stocks. On a broad scale, it can be the chance that investments in a particular country suffer during some sort of credit crisis, or the potential for a thinly-traded stock to crater or for its shares to be difficult to redeem in a crisis. It also occurs in investment products like non-traded REITs, where the investment cannot be sold at its perceived value if the money is needed on a moment's notice.
Political risk is the prospect that government decisions will damage the value of your investments. Whether it's the safety of Social Security, the impacts of a policy like Obamacare and how it might affect stocks in your portfolio, tax-law changes or more, this is the chance that broad policy decisions hit home.
Societal risk is ultra-big picture, looking at world events. This is what might happen in the event of terrorist attacks, war or catastrophe.
Diversification, of course, involves taking on some or all of these risks, so that no concern comes up and ruins you.
But that's also why you can figure out where to invest "now" by considering your biggest financial worry and playing to that particular type of risk.
Depending on circumstances and your nerves, the best move might be staying in cash and building emergency savings, or it could be exploring micro-cap stocks or emerging markets bonds.
In short, the answer for every guy in that conversation could be different, as it could be if you, your friends, family and co-workers tried to determine "where it's best to invest now."
When you want to know where to invest "next," re-evaluate your situation and, again, adjust based on your concerns at that point.
It may mean that whatever you do now won't be the choice that makes the most profit or that generates the hottest return, but it does mean that your actions should increase your ability to sleep at night. And that's a win — no matter what the market does next.
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The Verizon HTC Rezound has been on the market for a few days now, but we've finally received our demo unit and have had a few hours to play around with it. We plan on doing a detailed review of the device a bit further down the road, but we thought we'd share some of the phone's highlights for now and let you know what our first impressions are.
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The body of the Rezound is made up of a soft-touch rubber coating along the back and side and features a nice texture which gives the phone a nice feel. The bevel around the screen is made of a glossy dark gray plastic which is very susceptible to finger prints. While the phone feels good in the hand, it lacks that bit of extra weight and solid construction feel we have been used to with HTC's aluminum unibody handset shells.
One the performance side, the HTC Rezound is certainly a crowd pleaser. The phone's 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S3 processor paired with 1 GB of RAM make the Rezound one of the most powerful Android phones on the market. The phone easily handled the 3D games we threw at it including Wind-up Knight and Dungeon Defenders. It was even able to pull in a benchmark score of 5311 in AnTuTu – putting it on par with the Samsung Galaxy S II.
Our first few hours with the HTC Rezound have been great and we're looking forward to pushing the device to its limits. We still need to test out the camera, Beats Audio (our demo unit didn't come preloaded with any music) and battery life, so stay tuned for our full review. If you're still not sure if the HTC Rezound is the right phone for you, we suggest you go down to your local Verizon store and try it. From what we've seen so far, you certainly won't be disappointed.


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We're still around and doing well, just super busy. We went on vacation last week to Massanutten and now I'm trying to get everybody on schedule again.
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I Do All Things Well
I think I can do anything. When I see somebody do something I immediately think well if they can do it, so can I. This is a good and bad thing. On one hand, this is extremely arrogant and I need to be a bit more humble; but on the other hand, it's great motivation to work hard and attempt new things. I'm not attempting to diminish anybody else's accomplishments, it's just that I think I'm the greatest of all time even when I'm clearly not. One of the affirmations I get Judah to say is "I do all things well" because I want him to always be motivated to stick with a task until the statement is true.
Yesterday I was in a classroom to fill in for a teacher that needed to attend an IEP meeting and I saw a sign that was posted in the class. The sign read "No late work accepted unless you have an excused note within 3 days assignments were due is presented." Read that again. Read it one more time. It makes absolutely no sense. I thought to myself, if she can be a teacher, surely I can too.
If you follow me on twitter then you see me talk about my daily interactions at school. I frequently talk about the head teacher in my classroom. He doesn't know how to manage the classroom, he's never as prepared as he should be, and the kids can barely understand what he's saying. I look at him everyday and tell myself that if he can be a teacher, then I can be a teacher too.
I've been doing this job since October and I frequently see things that I could do better and that I would do differently. I don't believe in complaining about something that you can change. If you don't like something, do something about it. It's with that sentiment that I've decided that I'm going to become a teacher.
A few months ago, Singlema posted on twitter something about living your best life. It was asking about what's stopping you from living your best life and it mentioned not letting fear stop you. The only thing stopping me from being a teacher is fear. What if it turns out I can't run a classroom? What if the kids stage a mutiny and overthrow me and I have daily chaos in my classroom? What if during my evaluations they decide I suck and fire me? Will it take away from spending time developing my own kids? In my position now, there is no pressure on me and when everything is going wrong, it's on the teacher and not me. I don't have to fill out paperwork, I don't have to do individual education plans, and when I leave work, I'm done. It's a very easy life, but what about all the ideas I have? What about the lesson plans I keep coming up with in my head? What about the children stuck with a subpar teacher because I'm too scared to take the next step?
Living beneath your capabilities is a disgrace and does a disservice to God and the people He placed you here to impact. I love my job, it's time to kick it up a notch. If y'all don't hear me talking about getting my certification please shame me into action. This week my goal is to sign up for the Praxis. Here we go...
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My book club just finished reading Harry Potter. Mannnnnn, it was so good. I was glued to those books for 2 weeks. Next week I start on The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Monday, February 24, 2014
February Project
My February Pinterest project is underway! I'm making skirts for Alaia. My sister and I started yesterday and it ended with me throwing tantrums and whining about a hem. I'm going to get myself together and try again tomorrow. My mom is going to show me how to use a serger for the hem because it'll be easier. I'm very excited to see my cute little lady in her skirts when the weather warms up!
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MLB Division Series Game 5 Scouting Reports
The first Division Series game five kicks off on Thursday night:
Detroit at Yankees- Ivan Nova vs Doug Fister
– Even though he is far from a strikeout pitcher, Nova has to get ahead in the count: 1-1 count is vital, .172 average with no home runs on 1-2 count, compared to a .413 average with 2 HR on 2-1.
– Derek Jeter- since July 4, batting .331
– Doug Fister does not give up walks (ranks 6th in MLB with 1.5 BB/9) or home runs (ranks 5th with 0.47 HR/9)
– Love the catcher situation for Tigers, Avila has the highest OPS .896 of all catchers, and Victor Martinez bats .340 as a DH compared to .284 as a catcher.
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Arizona at Milwaukee- Ian Kennedy vs Yovani Gallardo
– Kennedy is best when the heat is on .140 average, just one home run with runners in scoring position.
– Ryan Roberts 11 home runs came in innings 1-3, just 1 in innings 7-9
– Corey Hart bats .370 when ahead in the count compared to .214 when behind
– Gallardo: April to August .246 average against on off-speed pitches // September: .158 average against
St. Louis at Philadelphia- Chris Carpenter vs Roy Halladay
– Pujols- keep the pitches outside .262 average, .360 slugging on outside pitches this season
– Carpenter should keep them in the game, he has a 2.39 ERA this season in games with 0-2 run support, compared to 5.70 when he gets 6+ runs.
– Raul Ibanez is a .274 hitter with 15 home runs at home compared to .210 with 5 home runs on the road
– Halladay can be beat on the first pitch- .331 average against 13 extra base hits
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With the W-SERIES here! Go Rangers!!! Texas all the way baby!
Before the game check out this SILLY video on youtube. A spoof of Moneyball and the Rise of the Apes (funny) titled MONKEYBALL , it makes fun of MLB and the super stars that play the game.
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Rangers in 5.
Can't wait for the game tonght! Go Rangers!!! Texas all the way baby!
Before the game you might like to check out this silly video on youtube. A spoof of Moneyball and the Rise of the Planet of the Apes (funny) titled MONKEYBALL , it makes fun of MLB and the super stars that play the game. Apes play baseball!
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Anyway, Enjoy. I will.
Rangers in 5.
How did the Rangers get here. No coaching, no bullpen, one real starter and some of the dumbest players I have seen. Cruz misplaced two balls and lost two games. Almost all batters take the first pitch and start out behind. They swing at everything while the cards make the dumb rangers come in.
No way for Tx to win. Just too dumb.